Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
408-04-010 ISMRM Abstract

UBNAno: Physics-Informed Brain Lesion Synthesis for Generalizable Anomaly Detection

Primary: Neuro - Tumors
Secondary: Analysis Methods - Segmentation and Detection
408-04-010 · Quantitative Imaging: MR Fingerprinting · Tuesday, 12 May, 4:00 PM–5:50 PM · Meeting Room 1.60
Keywords: MR Fingerprinting Deep learning Brain Tumor Segmentation Synthetic data Lesion detectability
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Eunate Alzaga Goñi 1, Rhea Adams1,2, Shahrzad Moinian3, Walter Zhao4, Pew-Thian Yap5, Evan Calabrese6, Dan Ma1,3
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, United States of America
2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States of America
3Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
4Medical Scientist Training Program, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, United States of America
5Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America
6Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, United States of America
Presenting Author: Eunate Alzaga Goñi

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